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To fall on; to experience; to suffer.
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With the rise of the Internet, some media fell upon hard times.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- run around with
- run down
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- add fuel to the fire
- and then some
- ass over teakettle
- back-to-back
- baggage
- bells and whistles
- bolt bucket
- bright line
- call a spade a spade
- cat and mouse game
- child's play
- cloud nine
- come to terms
- down the drain
- easy does it
- eat one's words
- elbow room
- fish or cut bait
- follow through
- food chain
- go red
- grunt work
- hand in hand
- have other fish to fry
- hit the spot
- hold somebody's hand
- hot potato
- keep an eye out
- lip service
- lower the boom
- lump in one's throat
- make believe
- muckety muck
- on the horn
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